Tom Brady Ankle Sprain Injury

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Brady has won three Super Bowl MVP awards, two league MVP awards (2007, 2010), has been selected to ten Pro Bowls, and has led the Patriots to more division titles than any other quarterback in NFL history, with twelve. Brady is fifth on the all-time list for career passing yards and third for career touchdown passes. His career postseason record is 21–8; his playoff win total is the most in NFL history. He helped set the record for the longest consecutive win streak in NFL history with 21 straight wins over two seasons (2003–2004). He also set the record for most consecutive playoff wins with 10, and in 2007 led the Patriots to the first undefeated regular season since the institution of the 16-game schedule.

He has thrown for more passing yards and touchdowns than any quarterback in NFL postseason history, and has the sixth highest career passer rating of all time (96.6) among quarterbacks with at least 1,500 career passing attempts.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter, citing a league source, reported that Brady is “expected to be ready for [the] playoffs” after his MRI revealed a sprain but no break or fractures.

On July 28, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld Brady’s suspension. Brady has reportedly given permission to the NFLPA to appeal the suspension in federal court. On July 28, the NFL announced the upholding of the four-game suspension, citing Brady’s destruction of his cell phone as a critical factor: “On or shortly before March 6, the day that Tom Brady met with independent investigator Ted Wells and his colleagues, Brady directed that the cell phone he had used for the prior four months be destroyed,” the league statement read. “He did so even though he was aware that the investigators had requested access to text messages and other electronic information that had been stored on that phone. During the four months that the cell phone was in use, Brady had exchanged nearly 10,000 text messages, none of which can now be retrieved from that device. The destruction of the cell phone was not disclosed until June 18, almost four months after the investigators had first sought electronic information from Brady.“The NFL also filed papers in Manhattan federal court seeking to confirm Roger Goodell’s decision. On July 29 Brady released a statement on his Facebook page criticizing Goodell’s decsion to uphold the suspension, saying in part “I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the 4 game suspension against me. I did nothing wrong, and no one in the Patriots organization did either… I will not allow my unfair discipline to become a precedent for other NFL players without a fight.”

Obviously whenever Brady is dealing with some sort of ailment, it’s a major concern for the Patriots. He’s still one of the league’s most important players at age 38, and the offense wouldn’t operate with anywhere near the same efficiency without him.

The legendary quarterback has remained mostly durable throughout his career. A season-ending knee injury in Week 1 of the 2008 season represents the only games he’s missed since the start of the 2002 campaign. More recently, he dealt with an illness leading up to Week 15.

 

By Tim Daniels, Featured Columnist

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